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LONDON, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Britain on Sunday said it would force retailers to implement stricter age-verification checks to stop children buying knives, in a tightening of policy days after a teenager admitted killing three young girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance event. Axel Rudakubana's knife attack in July was described last week as one of the most harrowing moments in Britain's history by Prime Minister Keir Starmer and has triggered a public inquiry into the failings that allowed it to happen. While that inquiry is expected to focus on why state institutions failed to act on warnings about the...

Ministers are planning a major overhaul to how knives are bought online after Southport triple killer Axel Rudakubana purchased weapons off Amazon before carrying out a sickening rampage at a Taylor Swift-themed dance party. Rudakubana, who on Monday pleaded guilty to the murder of of Bebe King, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, bought the kitchen knife used in the attack from Amazon when he was 17 despite having a conviction for violence. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper told the House of Commons yesterday that it was a 'disgrace' that Rudakubana was able to buy knives on...

A UK teen unexpectedly pleaded guilty Monday to killing three girls and wounding 10 others at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class last summer — while also admitting to having an al-Qaida training manual. Axel Rudakubana, now 18, pleaded guilty to the horrific murders of Bebe King, 6, Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7, and Alice Dasilva Aguiar, 9, along with 10 counts of attempted murder for stabbing eight other children as well as two adults who tried to help them at the kids’ event. ... He also pleaded guilty to keeping the al-Qaida manual, “Military Studies in the Jihad Against the Tyrants,”...

A teenager charged with murdering three children and harming 10 others at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport has been named as Axel Rudakubana. The 17-year-old, who turns 18 in just six days time, was born to Rwandan parents in Cardiff in 2006 before moving to the village of Banks in Lancashire in 2013. He is accused of carrying out the attack that killed Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice Dasilva Aguiar, nine. The video player is currently playing an ad. You can skip the ad in 5 sec with a mouse or keyboard Skip Ad...

Well.There's nothing like being trapped in a good old-fashioned 'Pit of Despair.' Pit Of Despair Princess Bride Albino GIFfrom Pit Of Despair GIFsEspecially when you dug it yourself!And, by George, that's where Sir Keir Starmer is finding his Labour party right now - wallowing in self-made misery with no obvious way to climb out.Looking for reasons why life is so awful for the party swept into power in July after rousting Rishi Sunak's bumbling Tory fools from power, Starmer doesn't have to search too diligently. In fact, a mirror would do nicely as a starting point.Starmer more unpopular after five...

Axel Rudakubana, accused of the knife attack at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in July, is alleged to have made ricin – a biological toxin – and kept materials related to the terrorist group.... al-Qaeda material was found during a search of Rudakubana’s house. It was a PDF entitled Military studies in the jihad against the tyrants: The al-Qaeda training manual.